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I had my Porsche 906, Goose had a Fly 250LM out and Al took a few laps with his Scaley GT40, Oh and Greg had a couple of Fly GT40s out there. That looks to be the popular car. I think Dan was trying out a 917 but I'm not sure. we were starting to get a pretty good crowd by then. My 906 ran great. I put the newer axles and BRM wheels back on my Fly 250LM, so it's not technically eligible at this point, but it sure is more fun at home. My stock wheels are rather wobbly at this point.
I'll try to remember to bring mine to Bill's this week.

I have a couple of extra I can bring.

When we first began discussing this class we just happened to be comparing the merits of Scalextric RTR cars to Fly RTR cars so we started to discuss racing these together. I occurs to me that Revell/Monogram also make several cars that fit into the specs that we are considering and with similar tuning could maybe be competitive with the other two. I'm wondering if we want to consider including this brand for the sake of greater variety. There might also be some who would like to participate that already own these and maybe not the others. Just a thought.

I'm usually one of the guys constantly upgrading and swapping parts just trying to keep up with you faster drivers, and I do like driving a smooth car, but too many upgrades is what happened to our classic sports car and Trans Am classes. I'm all for improvement to the handling of these cars, I suppose the issue is Motors.  It appears that Fly and Scalextric get their motors from the same supplier, at least they both show "black stripe" motors as 'Factory" replacement motors. I personally prefer the smooth power band of the H&R Hawk motor. 
  I pulled the label off of an older Scalextric "Sport"motor the other day, it had a black stripe underneath it. Go figure. If we are considering upgrading axles are we also considering upgrading wheels? Fly wheels won't fit Slot it axles. Another point to consider, many of the Fly cars now have 3D chassis available that take slot it pods. Rules, rules, rules.
I'm just here for the thrill of the chase, or is it Goose hunting?

That looks simple enough, is there a particular chip you recommend? Or is there just one Scaley chip? As far as the body work, I have a Dremel and I'm not afraid to use/abuse it.

http://northwesttruescaleracers.com/index.cfm    All of the specs for the different classes are here. All 1/24 scale.

I have both, the professor motor seems to be tougher regarding getting hooked up wrong, the DS on the other hand is much smoother as far as driving the cars and is a much better feeling controller. That being said several of us have had to send them back to get brake pods replaced, mostly due to hooking them up wrong even for just a moment. Goose seems to have fried one running the older cars with the heavy voltage draw. DiFalco makes one now for about the same price. I've never had one but have never seen any bad press about the product. Rico has one of the older higher end Difalcos that he likes quite a bit.

Yes Bob, thanks, Chris and I had a great time.

Good luck with that. :-)

That's a tough time to try to get to Vancouver from Tigard, but I'll give it a try. Keep us posted.

That particular car has an odd size rim, the center flange is 6.5mm wide, most of my wider tires are either made for a 6.mm flange or are too low profile for the 250GTO.I ordered a couple of tires with a 7mm flange from SCC to give it another go. I'll save the stock ones for you to set into a mold.